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United States Patent | 5,291,191 |
Moore | March 1, 1994 |
A medicine dispenser for allowing first and second medicine doses to be safely dispensed. The medicine dispenser includes a housing having a first compartment for holding the first medicine dose and for movement between a closed position in which access to the first medicine dose is prevented and an opened position in which access to the first medicine dose is allowed, and having a second compartment for holding the second medicine dose and for movement between a closed position in which access to the second medicine dose is prevented and an opened position in which access to the second medicine dose is allowed; a sound mechanism for selectively broadcasting audible descriptions of the first and second medicine doses; a first compartment switch for causing the sound mechanism to broadcast the audible description of the first medicine dose and for allowing the first compartment to move from the closed position to the opened position; and a second compartment switch for causing the sound mechanism to broadcast the audible description of the second medicine dose and for allowing the second compartment to move from the closed position to the opened position.
Inventors: | Moore; Don L. (P.O. Box 1022, 15 Carte Sq., West Plains, MO 65775) |
Appl. No.: | 855101 |
Filed: | March 20, 1992 |
Current U.S. Class: | 340/5.91; 221/3; 340/5.73; 340/692; 340/825.19 |
Intern'l Class: | G07F 009/02; H04Q 001/00 |
Field of Search: | 340/825.35,825.19,309.4,309.15,692 364/478,479 221/2,3,9,12,13,15,29,197 |
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